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in this very passage furnishes a specimen , so to speak , of apostolic folly ; and yet there has been no want of the greatest wisdom throughout his whole arrangement. — Y. g.]> — tfotpla Aoyou, wisdom of words) \_On account of which some individuals of you make me of greater or less importance than they do the rest. — Y. g.] — The nouns ivisdom and power are frequently used here. In the opinion of the world, a discourse is considered wise , which treats of every topic rather than the cross ; whereas a discourse on the cross admits of nothing heterogeneous being mixed up with it. — 6 trravghg rod Xpufrod) the cross of Christ) ver. 24. Ignorance of the mystery of the cross is the foundation, for example, of the whole Koran. \The sum and substance of the Gospel , as to its commencements , is implied , ver. 18, 23, ii. 2. He, who rejects the cross, con- tinues in ignorance also of the rest of revealed truth; he , who re- ceives it , becomes afterwards acquainted with its power (or, virtue , 2 Pet. i. 5) and glory. — Y. g.]
18. Mwf/a, folly) and offence. See, immediately after, its an- tithesis, power. There are two steps in salvation, Wisdom and Power. In the case of them that perish, when the first step is taken away, the second [also] is taken away ; in the case of the blessed, the second presupposes the first. — c^offivoig, to them , that are being saved) The Present tense is used, as in the phrase, to them that perish. He, who has begun to hear the Gospel is con- sidered neither as lost, nor as saved, but is at the point, where the two roads meet, and now he either is perishing, or is being saved. — d- jw/uig, the power) and wisdom , so also, ch. ii. 5.
19. ’A roXu — ddsrijdu) Isa. xxix. 14, LXX. xai aroXoj — xpv^w ; the intermediate words of them (lxx.) and of Paul are the same. — aroXu, I will destroy) hence to bring to nought , ver. 28, ch. ii. 6.
20. IloiJ 6o(pog^ rod ypu/xfiarsug ; rod &ufyrijrrjg rod a/uvog rovrov)
Isa. xxxiii. 18, LXX., ‘Tod sitfi ypaj^fiarixoi ; ‘rod siffiv oi ffvj^[3ovXs{j- ovreg ; rod sffnv 6 upid/auv rodg Gutfrpspofjo'evovg. Hebr. ITK "1DD ITK D'inJDirnK *iejd The first half of the verse proposes two
questions, of which the former is cleared up in the second half, and the latter in the verse following (YVe have also a similar figure in Isa. xxv. 6) : Where is the scribe f where is the weigher (or, receiver) ? where is the scribe with the towers ? where is the weigher (or, receiver) with a strong people , on whom thou canst not
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